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UAE Deploys AI-Powered Cloud Seeding Drones During Extreme Summer Heat

The National Centre of Meteorology has launched a new fleet of autonomous electric cloud-seeding drones as temperatures across the UAE exceeded forty-eight degrees Celsius, aiming to improve rainfall operations over the Hajar Mountains.
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